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josh_bodner
Microsoft
Apr 29, 2020Dev Channel update to 84.0.495.2 is live
Hello Insiders! Today we’re releasing build 84.0.495.2 to the Dev Channel. While there isn’t too much new to talk about this week, we do want to make users of Collections aware of a potential issue...
ManishGiri
Apr 30, 2020Copper Contributor
josh_bodner wrote:
- Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some previous fixes in that area. The most common way this is triggered is by installing the Stable channel of Edge and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before. Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplicator tool is available. However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we wait for some of the fixes we’ve made to come to Stable, make sure to leave plenty of time in between runs of the deduplicator. We hope that this will be improved now that version 81 is released to Stable.
I'm surprised that this is still a "known issue", and there has been no fix for it yet. This is a high priority bug, and it's not just happening for "some users", with people reportedly ending up with 25k duplicated bookmarks.
Here is how messed up bookmarks are on my devices right now -
People tend to use bookmarks more frequently than the newly introduced "collections", so it's very strange that this issue is being taken so lightly. What's the point of having sync enabled if you can't use it across devices?
bekalshenoy
Apr 30, 2020Copper Contributor
ManishGiri Try Going To edge://favorites/removeDuplicates
- ManishGiriApr 30, 2020Copper Contributor
bekalshenoy wrote:ManishGiri Try Going To edge://favorites/removeDuplicates
Please go through my Reddit post. I have already used the "Remove Duplicates" feature, but it only takes care of the duplicates on that particular computer you're on. As soon as you log on to Edge on another device (with the same account), all bookmarks get replicated on that device, as well as the first device, and in any other device you log on to.
Even if there is a significant time period between when you first run the removal tool and the next time you log on to another device (2 days, in my case), the replication still occurs, unlike what is mentioned in OP's post.